He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy.” ~Jonathan Safran Foer

LET GO, WATCH THE SUNRISE.

A PICK ME UP.

“You are a perfectly acceptable human being right now, this minute. You are just as valid as any other human being, without changing a single thing about yourself. That doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to want to grow, evolve or improve yourself, or you can’t do better sometimes, it just means right now this instant, you are worthy of your own self love. Even if it is hard to love yourself sometimes (and boy, is it!), or you’re struggling with some really difficult stuff in your life, you still deserve it. So dearest you, be kind to yourself, be kind to others, and give the best version of you that you can give, but know that even in the tough times, you are still valid, worthy and deserving”

And so I'm sailing through the sea

To an island where we'll meet

You'll hear the music fill the air

I'll put a flower in your hair

Though the breezes through trees

Move so pretty you're all I see

As the world keeps spinning round

You hold me right here right now

-Lucky

LITTLELIONMAN!

If you’re feeling frightened about what comes next… Don’t. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness. Don’t waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present – each moment as it comes – because you’ll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart, where your hope lives. You’ll find your way again.”

Music speaks what cannot be expressed,
soothes the mind and gives it rest,
heals the heart and makes it whole,
flows from heaven to the soul.

• • 
    If you have a heart as warm as the sun, a mind as content as the morning dew and a soul as pure as an undiscovered island ... together you will make up a pretty inviting paradise for one to want to stay.

JULY 7-9th

Music…makes me remember people I’ve met, places I’ve been to and experiences I’ve had in my life. So let the music play, I want to go back to my happy place. -Camp Bisco 2011

So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. – Marilyn Monroe

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

-john lennon

• • 
    At some point, our lips met and it was perhaps the most wonderful thing I’d ever experienced. And truly, I guess there wasn’t just one kiss, but several. A polite frenzy. A mass migration of delicate wildebeest kisses. I remember them as one transcendent event, though.

I can never go back to loving you the way I did, knowing that my love wasn’t strong enough the first time around. –Dawson’s Creek

It doesn’t matter how many haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of Chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends. You still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you even convince yourself that he’ll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long that may be, you’ll go somewhere new. And you’ll meet new people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade. –The Holiday

HAPPY 4TH!

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.  You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.  ~Erma Bombeck

When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

There are days when everything seems wrong, when little things hurt you for no good reason. And then there are days, when the world just sings to you, from the minute you open your eyes to the minute you shut them again at night.

Dogs are minor angels, and I don’t mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it’s “only” a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human being? Many times those qualities are seen in our dogs every single day – we’re just so used to them that we pay no attention.

A WISH FOR MY NUGGETS...

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

I was thinking about the finality of it all - how somebody can leave your world in the blink of an eye and be gone forever. It's too enormous to think about. It's too hard. And then you're supposed to go on, right, like just deal with it, I mean really you're supposed to be sad for as long as the flowers last and then, oh, time to go back to telling jokes and reminiscing about the good old days. -OneTreeHill

The amazing moments in life;

Coming home late and going straight to bed.

Buying amazing clothes that you found on sale.

Holding hands.

Unexpected moments that become your favorite memories.

Talking on the phone until five in the morning

Resting on someones chest.

Taking long showers that wash away your worries.

Feeling as though you finally belong somewhere.

Deciding what you want to do with your life.

Feeling satisfied after a delicious meal.

Falling asleep instantly when you're upset.

Meeting people that happen to change your life.

When you have a great night of sleep.

Drinking a cup of tea.

Realizing everything is going to be okay.

Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it’s your communication of last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail the same as when you were a baby and had no words. <3 my old man, soxamus.

Wanderlust: a very strong or irresistible impulse to travel. [German: wandern, to wander (from Middle High German) + Lust, desire (from Middle High German, from Old High German; see las- in Indo-European roots).] relentlessly craving.

“How dare you open a space man’s helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could have been sucked from their sockets!”

-Buzz Lightyear xx

"Well she just wanders around unaffected by the winter winds, yeah

and she'll pretend that

well she's somewhere else

so far and clear

about 2,000 miles from here."

Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.

SOME CUTE THIN TRASLATED..

L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”

Last time we went swimming

the sea stood up and hugged you

as though you were responsible

for keeping it blue.

A WORD ON INTIMACY..

"One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. When it isn't there (as I have learned in the past, with heartbreaking clarity) you can no more force it to exist than a surgeon can force a patient's body to accept a kidney from the wrong donor. My friend Annie says it all comes down to one simple question: "Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever --or not?" 

-elizabeth gilbert

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

:The love that moves the sun and the other stars

ALIVE, ALL OF THE COLORS IN THE NIGHT...

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

SYLVIA PLATH.

If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression of something beautiful, but annihilating.

“You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe–a harmonic connection between all living beings; every where; even the stars.” ~Wizard, August Rush

SHES A PARTY QUEEN, AND SHES IN PARTY HEAVEN.

“It’s amazing, some people, they just say these small little things, one sentence and it changes the way you feel about them in an instant. Small little words that can hurt you so much or make you fall deeply in love forever. It changes everything, nothing between you is ever really the same again, even if they don’t know it.”

“When I first met him, I knew in a moment I would have to spend the next few days re-arranging my mind so there’d be room for him to stay.” ~Brian Andreas, Story People

Never ignore a person who loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day, you might wake up from your sleep and realize that you lost the moon while counting the stars.

THE EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWERS.

ROLL OUT THOSE LAZY, HAZY, CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER.

“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower’s stem.”

GOOD FRIENDS, GOOD BOOKS AND A SLEEPY CONSCIENCE: THIS IS THE IDEAL LIFE.

"I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water." 

"But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to...nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"

"I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead." 

"People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of it.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you." 

"Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, 

I honor the divinity that resides within me."

SOMETHING I OFTEN STRUGGLE WITH...

"Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss." 

"I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises."